One avenue few designers have explored is the idea of ‘bowing’ a synth engine, in the manner you would stringed instruments like a violin or cello. DIY-minded Japanese musician Washiyama Giken ...

Thompson is a “luthier,” a craftsperson who builds and repairs stringed instruments that are played with a bow or plucked. The term originated in the Renaissance to describe makers of lutes.

An annual music festival themed on bowed string instruments was held by the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts from Nov 13 to 17. [Photo provided to China Daily] An annual music festival ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

Erhu performer Zhang Zhijun (L) instructs his students in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 13, 2019. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

Paulu once worked on a 200-year-old bow from France worth about $100,000. Transforming a block of wood into a delicate bow is labor-intensive and takes about 40 hours.

Jeremy Moyer discovered the two-stringed erhu on a volunteering trip to Taiwan in 1990. He has just released his third solo album of Chinese stringed instruments and has developed a sound that is ...

Over the course of the week, students will continue to practice and improve on their skills and learn a number of songs they will play during a concert at 4 p.m. Friday at the Community Center on ...

News Making stringed instruments a labor of love, laughs for Modesto men By Deke Farrow [email protected] Updated June 16, 2016 8:12 AM ...